2016 Brandon Douglas B. DOUG

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Brandon Douglas

Poet – Teaching Artist – Rapper – Actor

Brandon Douglas is a product of the land known as Washington, DC. He began writing when he was 12, after discovering his ability to write raps. Through his teenage years poetry and hip-hop became one in his mind and soul as tools of self-expression. Since then he has been on the DC Youth Poetry Slam Team, opened for the late Gil Scott Heron, and performed at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, the Woolly Mammoth Theater, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Split This Rock Poetry Festival, the Phillips Collection, as well as the South African State Theatre. A poet, rapper, teacher, and actor, Brandon has been a production team member with City at Peace DC for 4 years, using theatre arts to teach cross cultural dialogue and nonviolent conflict resolution. He facilitates writing, performance, and social justice workshops, and is a teaching artist organizing and coaching high school poetry clubs in DC with nonprofit org Split This Rock. With his artistry he works to guide others toward positivity, encouraging them to strive to be whole. He is constantly working to grow as an artist as well as a person, and he details this journey through spoken word in an honest way so that others may be moved to do the same.

Thurs. 8 Sept. – Poetry on the Rocks
11:00-14:00 Writing and Rehearsing together
19:00-23:00 Emcee and open “Poetry on the Rocks” concert feat. Flex of He & I
@ The Good Luck Bar, 1 Fox St, Johannesburghttps://www.facebook.com/events/1770415416538427/

Weds. 14 Sept. – Ga Rankuwa
09:00-13:00 Tebogwana Secondary School
Ga Rankuwa Zone 7
Note: They would like us to come as early as possible in order to cover as many of their Grade 11 english classes as possible.

Post-workshop Group Photo

Thurs. 15 Sept. – American Corner of SA
10:00-13:00 Mentorship session at the South African State Theatre

SA State Theatre Incubator Program Workshop

14:00-16:00 Lead workshop with Laquesha
@Es’kia Mphahlele Library, American Corner, Sammy Marks Square,
City of Tshwane

Brandon and LaQuesha workshopping.

18:30-21:00 Meaning of Miles Davis to South Africa, art exhibit and artist talk
@Gallery MOMO, Joburg

18:00-23:00 Spotlight at the Out There Series (10 min performance at jazz n poetry series, with theme of heritage month, so talk about your heritage and/or SA heritage)
@ The Orbit – Home of Jazz, 81 de Korte Street, Braamfontein, Joburg 2001https://www.facebook.com/events/166510117124869/